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Romain Rolland (French: [ʁɔmɛ̃ ʁɔlɑ̃]; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
- 1902–1944
- Nobel Prize in Literature, 1915
- Clothilde Bréal, m. 1892–1901; Jify Romain Rolland, m. 1934–1944
- Madeleine Rolland (sister)
Apr 18, 2024 · Romain Rolland (born Jan. 29, 1866, Clamecy, France—died Dec. 30, 1944, Vézelay) was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist, an idealist who was deeply involved with pacifism, the fight against fascism, the search for world peace, and the analysis of artistic genius. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.
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1902–1944. Influences: Goethe, Leo Tolstoy. Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe (1904-1912). His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old. Thirteen years later, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in ...
YearWork1888Amour d'enfants1891Les Baglioni1891Empédocle (Empedocles)1891OrsinoSep 22, 2016 · Wikipedia/Bibliothèque nationale de France. For many Europeans of my generation—those who came of age before World War II—Romain Rolland (1866-1944) was not only the most important writer of our time but a beacon of light in a very dark world. Novelist, essayist, dramatist, art historian, humanist, pacifist, idealist without compare, he ...
Feb 8, 2017 · Nowhere does that singular spirit come to life more vibrantly than in the 1927 masterwork Beethoven the Creator (public library) by the great French dramatist, novelist, essayist, and art historian Romain Rolland — not so much a standard biography but a passionately poetic portrait of the great composer and his inner world.
Romain Rolland received this homage precisely because he asked profound, if elusive, questions. Just as he understood the limits of available knowledge, so too did he recommend further research and reflection to expand what was knowable. Romain Rolland's living presence as a writer could not be ignored.
Jan 8, 2011 · Romain Rolland and his intimate Paul Claudel (author of Annonce faite à Marie), the two greatest imaginative writers in contemporary France, who crossed the threshold of school together, were almost simultaneously, twenty years later, to secure a European reputation. During the last quarter of a century, the two have followed very different ...
